Then let the witch offer her loyalty

[Classmate Xiao Chen]: I really like you. I will be good to you for the rest of my life. Can you give me a chance?

[Moon Cookie]: I'm sorry, you're really not my type...

[Classmate Xiao Chen]: Okay...

...

September 4th, 59th year of the Long Night.

[Classmate Xiao Chen]: I really don't understand. I've tried so hard, why can't I catch your eye?

[Classmate Xiao Chen]: You like masculine types, so I shaved my head and have been working out. I'm desperately changing myself for you.

[Classmate Xiao Chen]: But why won't you give me even the slightest chance? Am I that bad?

[My deskmate Xiao Chen]: I really hate myself, why can't I live the kind of life you like...

Two minutes later.

[Classmate Xiao Chen]: Qiao Qiao, Chen Moxin is drunk and acting crazy. Don't mind what he said earlier.

ten minutes later.

【Moon Cookie】: Sorry, I was just taking a shower and only just saw the message.

[Moon Cookies]: Where are you? I'll bring some honey water.

...

September 5th, 59th year of the Long Night.

[Classmate Xiao Chen]: I drank too much yesterday, I'm sorry...

[Moon Cookie]: It's okay, just don't drink so much in the future. You threw up several times last night.

[Moon Cookie]: No matter what, health is the most important thing.

[Classmate Xiao Chen]: Hmm.

...

September 12th, 59th year of the Long Night.

[Classmate Xiao Chen]: Qiao Qiao, there's something I want to tell you.

[My deskmate Xiao Chen]: I've met someone I like.

[Classmate Xiao Chen]: I used to think that I would like you forever, and if I couldn't win you over in this lifetime, I would chase you for the rest of my life.

[Classmate Xiao Chen]: Looking back now, I was so naive back then, haha.

[Classmate Xiao Chen]: From the first year of high school to the third year of college, I think it's time for me to put an end to my six-year unrequited love.

[Classmate Xiao Chen]: Although we couldn't be together, we will always be friends.

[My deskmate Xiao Chen]: I wish you meet the right person soon. Goodbye, my white moonlight.

[Moon Cookie]: Yes, we'll always be friends!

[Moon Cookie]: Thank you for your blessings, and I wish you happiness too!

...

Looking through their old chat history, Gu Qiaoqiao felt both warm and pained.

6 years.

This may not be a long time on the scale of a lifetime.

But it is the entirety of youth.

A boy who has devoted his entire youth to this is bound to be moved, even if he isn't initially impressed.

Gu Qiaoqiao was genuinely grateful for Chen Moxin's kindness to her. She always felt that she and he would be friends forever, no matter how many years passed.

But tonight, when she tried to stop Chen Moxin from going to the bar, he ruthlessly told her that they should delete each other's contacts.

She didn't know if this was just a momentary outburst or the pent-up resentment from years of being rejected when she confessed her feelings.

In short, at that moment, she suddenly felt a void in a corner of her heart, followed by a surge of sadness and fear, as if she had lost something very important in her life.

Before I knew it, I had scrolled to the bottom of the chat history.

Since Chen Moxin and Tan Shengmei got together at the start of their senior year, Gu Qiaoqiao hasn't spoken to him at all.

Although Gu Qiaoqiao had never been in a relationship, even she knew, no matter how naive she was, that it was absolutely inappropriate to chat with a guy who already had a girlfriend.

At this moment, Gu Qiaoqiao hesitated for a long time before finally starting to type with trembling hands.

[Xiao Chen, I'm sorry about tonight.]

I have carefully reflected on my behavior. You clearly had plans with your friends, but I stubbornly stopped you, causing you to miss your ride and waste time. What I did was wrong.

I just asked some friends who have been to bars, and they said that legitimate bars aren't as scary as I imagined. I'm sure the one you went to wasn't one of those shady bars either. My stopping you was just wishful thinking.

I'm so sorry, everything that happened tonight was my fault. I hope you can forgive me. I will never be so willful again.

Let's make up, okay?

After typing these few lines of humble text, Gu Qiaoqiao pressed the send button.

As soon as the message was sent, she saw a red exclamation mark, followed by a system notification:

The other party has enabled friend verification, but you are not yet their friend. Please send a friend request first. You can chat after they accept your request.

At this moment, Gu Qiaoqiao was completely stunned.

"Xiao Chen... he really deleted me..."

Tears of grievance silently welled up in her eyes, sliding down her cheeks and landing on the phone screen, blurring the lines of apology.

Overwhelmed by an unprecedented sadness, Gu Qiaoqiao buried her face in her pillow and burst into tears.

Chapter 105 The Witch's Awakening

As the official agency responsible for regulating psychic energy and combating madness, the Witch Administration Bureaus throughout the Rose Empire have established "Madness Monitoring Base Stations."

This is a large device similar to a signal tower that can monitor the fluctuations of electromagnetic energy within its coverage area in real time and feed the data back to the duty personnel of the management bureau.

From a technical perspective, the monitoring base station is not yet fully mature, its positioning accuracy is not particularly high, and it is affected by some external factors.

Furthermore, its manufacturing cost is extremely high. Even with the financial resources of a megacity like the Twin Cities, the base stations can only cover the core areas, while remote areas cannot be covered for the time being.

Of course, it is undeniable that since the advent of the psychic monitoring base station technology, it has played a very important role, helping the Administration to locate illegal psychics on more than one occasion and nipping dangers in the bud.

Tonight, the duty officers of the Administration Bureau are sitting in the main control room of the Kuangyi monitoring base station as usual.

In fact, this is a very leisurely job. The monitoring system is highly intelligent and will automatically record any abnormalities it detects. There is no need to keep an eye on it all the time. Human intervention is only required to deal with some unexpected failures.

Unless there are any special circumstances, it's okay for staff on duty to slack off occasionally.

Tonight is peaceful. The staff member on duty made himself a bowl of instant noodles and was eating while scrolling through short videos of beautiful women on his phone.

The screen in front of him was dark gray, displaying a 3D structural map of the entire Twin Cities, with the location and status of each monitoring base station marked in real time.

Suddenly, one of the base station markers lit up with a ripple-like pattern, and the originally dark gray interface immediately turned into a blood-red tone.

"Warning: Abnormal and erratic energy fluctuations have been detected and are being traced."

Accompanied by a piercing buzzing sound, a warning message popped up.

The staff on duty quickly put down their instant noodles and mobile phones, returned to the control panel, and processed the information according to routine procedures.

Immediately afterwards, he picked up the dedicated phone on the table and dialed directly to the Ninth Division of the Demon Hunters.

The Ninth Division of the Demon Hunting Bureau is also a department with staff on duty 24 hours a day. Tonight's duty officer is Yang Jie, the captain of the Snow Moon Squadron.

"Team Leader Yang, the base station has just detected fluctuations in the energy of the Madman."

"What waveform?"

"The comparison has been done; it's the 'initial waveform,' indicating a new witch has awakened."

Waveform refers to the form and nature of volatile energy, which is usually divided into "general waveform" and "initial waveform".

"General waveforms" are mainly seen in the witch herself, or when she uses psychic energy on behalf of someone else. They are the most common energy waveforms left behind by the accumulated madness and erosion within the witch's body.

The "initial waveform" is special; it only appears when a witch first awakens her psychic powers.

Once the initial waveform appears, it means that the other party is not any existing witch, but a newly awakened witch.

This is a very tricky matter.

The Bureau has records of investigations into witches on the wanted list, and they have information about their personal details and abilities.

This newly awakened witch has no known age, appearance, or abilities; all information is vague, so we have to start from scratch.

If the other party is cautious enough and hides their psionic energy after awakening, then the Bureau really has no way to deal with it. After all, apart from detecting the madness's corruption, there is no other way to distinguish between witches and ordinary women.

As the squadron leader, Yang Jie was already very skilled at handling similar incidents. He continued to ask, "Where did the incident occur?"

The staff member on duty looked at the information on the screen and reported: "It's in the university town area in the west of the city. According to the system's intelligent comparison, it should be inside the Second Normal University."

"Okay, I got it. Now, what about me... um? Wait a minute!" Yang Jie said, then suddenly realized something.

"The Second Normal University? Isn't that...?"

...

That night, Chen Moxin drank until after 11 p.m.

He first took Mio to her place, and then went home to sleep with Shiro.

The bedroom was filled with Dong Xiaobai's unique fragrance. In the dead of night, everything was immersed in darkness, quiet and peaceful.

"Jingle Bell--"

Chen Moxin was fast asleep when her phone suddenly rang.

As a witch hunter, Chen Moxin has a work cell phone issued by the bureau. It is strictly stipulated that the phone must not be turned off or silenced, and must be kept on 24 hours a day to deal with emergencies.

Upon hearing the personalized ringtone on her work phone, Chen Moxin immediately opened her eyes and sat up.

He looked at Dong Xiaobai, who had also been woken up, gently pressed her shoulder with his hand, and said softly, "It's okay. If there's anything at work, just call me. You can go back to sleep."

He picked up his phone, went to the balcony, closed the door, and pressed the call button.

"Team Leader Yang."

"Chen Moxin, where are you?"

"At home, what's wrong?"

"We just received a message from the control room that they detected energy fluctuations of the Madman at your university, and it's the initial waveform."

"My university? You mean the Second Normal University?"

Chen Moxin was somewhat surprised; what a coincidence!

Not long after she became a witch hunter, a new witch awakened at her alma mater.

Yang Jie said in a deep voice, "The university environment is quite special; outsiders who try to blend in will be very conspicuous. You happen to be a student at the Second Normal University, so after thinking about it, I've decided you'll be in charge of investigating this matter."

"Go and come up with a plan. Tell me how the bureau can cooperate. Find that witch as soon as possible."

Chen Moxin nodded: "I understand. I'll go back to the station first."

After making the call, he went back to his room and changed out of his pajamas.

Dong Xiaobai sat up in bed, helped Chen Moxin put away her pajamas, and asked softly, "What's wrong? Are you going out?"

"Well, something's come up at the bureau." Chen Moxin smiled at Dong Xiaobai. "I might have to work overtime for the next few days. Could you tell Lao Chen for me tomorrow?"

After hearing this, Dong Xiaobai also prepared to change her clothes: "I'll take you there."

"No need, you can continue sleeping. I'll drive myself." Chen Moxin led her back to bed, covered her with the air conditioning blanket, and then turned and left.

After driving back to the management bureau, Chen Moxin first pulled up the data files transmitted from the monitoring room.

The accuracy of the current monitoring base station is not very high, and it can only give a general range, unlike conventional mobile phone signal tracking, which can locate which building and which room.

Coincidentally, the campus of the Second Normal University is quite large, and the range identified by the base station did not extend beyond the campus.

Furthermore, given that it was late at night and the Second Normal University was under closed management with no outsiders present, it was almost certain that the newly awakened witch was someone from the university.

Once the scope is determined, the remaining task is to investigate.